Nay Family History
Nay Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: reduced form of McNay.English: variant of Nye.French: habitational name from
places so called in Manche and Pyrénées Atlantiques, possibly
named with Latin Nadium, from a Gaulish personal name,
Nadius.Dutch: metonymic occupational name for a
tailor or embroiderer, from a derivative of naaien ‘to sew’.Jewish (Ashkenazic): Yiddish equivalent of German Neu.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Nay Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Nay families
 31 - 59  11 - 30 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Nay families
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37 - 72 13 - 36 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Nay families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Nay Family Origin
Nay Immigration Information
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Nay Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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